Details

CPU Clock Rate

4.0GHz

GPU Core Clock Rate

1.08Ghz

GPU Effective Memory Clock Rate

6.01Ghz

Description

Saw this awesome case and saw it as an opportunity to try my hand at custom cabling and sleeving. The build went pretty much super easy, with only my fingers suffering from the sleeving. The specs are pretty mid-range as I ended up doing this build for my mother as she had the oldest computer. It is half the size (vs the xqpack she had) and approx 3 times as fast as the old computer. Also, its essentially silent with the twin frozr and the h220. Chose to forgo optical drive and any other storage as it wasn't absolutely necessary for this build and saved on cabling.

One odd problem I encountered was the chassis fan plug on the z87e-itx using voltage mode rather than pwm while using the splitter that is included in the h220. It seemed to work fine with a single fan plugged in however. What I ended up doing is crimping the wires for both fans into one header with only using the sense wire from one of them. This allowed both to be controlled via pwm without any issues.

It kinda depends. Its tuned for quietness rather than pure temps, and it excels at that. One of the cores runs hotter than the others, but the highest temps I've seen is via LinX (Linpack) which got to about 85C on the hot core (fans barely running 50%). The other cores were below 80C. Prime95 didn't break 80C on any of the cores, closer to 75C on average, again using quiet fan profile. Furmark (actually MSI Kombuster) maxed out around 85C too, which is a bit hot, but that was with quiet fans and the TDP limit maxed out to 120% or so.

Normal gaming temps seem to be closer to 50C all around on everything. Idle temps are barely above ambient.

This case is so flexible. In theory it can handle an i7 and a Titan, which some people have done. But I had no use for that much power as it was going to be my Mom's (she does in fact do some gaming!). I went with a solid mid-range build with a focus on quietness (hence the oversized coolers).